Anthropic Releases Enterprise ‘Agent Skills’ as Open Standard
According to VentureBeat AI, Anthropic announced on Wednesday that it will release its Agent Skills technology as an open standard. The San Francisco-based artificial intelligence company is positioning this move as a strategic effort to establish its presence in the rapidly evolving enterprise software market.
The Agent Skills technology is designed to make AI assistants more capable in workplace environments. By opening the standard rather than keeping it proprietary, Anthropic is taking a different approach that contrasts with competitors like OpenAI, which the company appears to be directly challenging with this release.
The decision to make Agent Skills an open standard represents a bet by Anthropic that sharing its technological approach will strengthen rather than weaken its competitive position. This strategy aims to cement the company’s role as enterprise organizations increasingly adopt AI-powered tools and assistants for workplace applications.
The announcement signals Anthropic’s commitment to enterprise-focused AI solutions and reflects the company’s approach to building market presence through openness and standardization rather than closed, proprietary systems.